Biography of W T Allison, Greene Co, AR
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Submitted by: Michael Brown
Date: 5 Sep 1998
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Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas
page 122
W. T. Allison was born on the 25th of December, 1850, in Gibson County, Tenn., being
the eldest of six children, two now living, born to John W. and Elizabeth
(Harrington) Allison, who were born in the “Old North State” and emigrated to Gibson
County, Tenn., in 1828, where the father engaged in cabinet making and farming, and
made his home until 1867, when he moved to Weakley County, Tenn., where he now
resides. In 1862 he enlisted in the army and served under Gen. Forrest until nearly
the close of the war. He is a Democrat. His wife died in 1861. W. T. Allison attended
the schools of Gibson County, and in his youth also followed the plow, which
occupation has been his chief calling ever since. In January, 1876, he removed to
Stoddard County, Mo., and for a number of years was engaged in teaching school in
Dexter and other places. While there he was married on the 8th of May, 1879, to Miss
Minnie A. Walker, a native of Carroll County, Tenn., and a daughter of John and Sarah
(Gibbons) Walker, also Tennesseeans and farmers by occupation; after residing in
Stoddard County, Mo., for five years, the father died in 1877. The mother is still a
resident of that county. Remaining in Stoddard County until the 5th of September,
1882, Mr. Allison and wife then moved to Craighead County of this State, and after
working as salesman in that county until March, 1883, he came to Greene County, Ark.,
and purchased two years later eighty acres of improved land, to which he has since
added 122 acres, making 202 acres in all, of which forty are under cultivation. He
has taken an active part in politics, and votes the Democratic ticket, being the
present justice of the peace and is filling his second term. Socially, he is a member
of the Agricultural Wheel at Halliday, and he and wife belong to the Baptist Church.
Three of the four children born to their union are living: Clyde Engenia, Dero Dean,
and Vernie Pearl. Adolphus Burdette died in 1881 at the age of six months and three
weeks. Mr. Allison is still engaged in teaching, having followed that occupation a
part of four years in Greene County, and is considered one of the successful
educators of his district.